Excerpt from The Witchsong (Das Hexenlied) The present version is a rendition of the text rewritten and rearranged by von Wildenbruch for the musical setting especially composed for the poem by Max Schillings. It differs very slightly from the text as it was first offered to the German public. Some lines were omitted, a few new lines introduced, and the order of the lines occasionally changed to give a better musical and dramatic sequence. It is quite remarkable that a poem of such exquisite beauty and dramatic intensity should have, for so long a time, received no English version that would bring it to the attention of the English-speaking people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.